Ling Lei Lisic joined the accounting faculty at George Mason University after receiving her PhD from the University of Connecticut in 2008. Her research interests focus on archival tests of economic theories of financial accounting and auditing. Her research has appeared (or been accepted for publication) in premier academic journals such as Journal of Accounting and Economics,Journal of Financial Economics, Production and Operations Management, and Contemporary Accounting Research. She has served as a guest editor for Journal of Business Research and a reviewer for journals such as Contemporary Accounting Research. She is the Vice-Chair of the 2016 American Accounting Association Auditing Section Midyear Meeting and will be the Co-Chair for the 2017 Meeting.

Her teaching interests are in auditing, financial accounting and managerial accounting, at both graduate and undergraduate levels. She has taught Auditing to Master of Accounting and undergraduate students, Introductory Financial Accounting to MBA and undergraduate students, and Intermediate Financial Accounting I and Introductory Managerial Accounting to undergraduate students.